We have a topic on reboots, that is full of our hopes and ideas of what the ideal x-men movie would be like. But i simply ask this question. What to you did you find wrong with the current x-men trilogy?

Was it the non-canical timeline the movie universe followed?
Was it the the actors/actresses that were cast in the role?
Was it just down to the story?
Or simply too much interfierance?

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Personally i think Bryan Singer didnt know what to do with the character because he couldnt relate to him. Bryan Singer stated that mutants face alot of similar situations that same sex sexuality faces... like the phobia, exceptance, coming out... you can see that he has used that as a guide to alot of the characters for example.

Iceman - coming out (as a mutant) to his parents
Wolverine - lost and confused as to who he was
Magneto - proud of what he is
Senitor Kelly - phobia and not really understanding mutants.

with Cyclops, and he's not the only character i noticed in the movie series you felt there was no social problem. They carried on as if they were just there and everything that was happening was happening around them but not happening too them.

I mean, he didnt want wolverine around in the x-mansion because he believed he would bring trouble. In x2 he was just carrying on as normal but became a puppet of stryker, however the outcome of that movie saw him lose the love of his life...and really wolverine was a factor of this, because wolverine went to that school, if you think about wolverine origins. Stryker could of been stopped, it could of not happend. and i mean cyclops could of been really made at wolverine for what he has brought to the school. then we get to x-men 3 and by then cyclops has just had enough... finds jean and dies. well so we believe...

again to me, alot could of been done with cyclops.

only x-men 1 was he really best utilised, but through x2 and 3, we really should of seen his leadership. You know it would of been better for storm to have been captured and turned into a puppet, but have cyclops losing control of the situation only to redeem himself. Then by x3 - yeah maybe start off with cyclops disappearance but bring him back at the end of the movie... thats something ive always felt was missing... Cyclops should of appeared at the end of the movie maybe on alcatraz and it was him that kills phoenix... but then we all know x-men was about hugh jackman and what was his character? oh thats right wolerine.

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I certainly agree with that Cyclops complaint. I know why it happened (Marsden jumping ship leaving few shooting days on X3) but that doesn't make it any easier. Also, setting up Colossus beautifully in X2 but to waste him in X3 (with worse CG looking powers)was a shame. Beast looked great and was perfectly cast but essentially wasted as well. I liked X3 but it did feel a bit rushed. A masterful film like X2 was going to be tough to follow anyway but circumstances made it harder on everyone.

Complaints aside, the X-Trilogy honestly stacks up with any movie trilogy in history. (Spidey, Indy, Rocky, Bourne, Star Wars, etc.) X3 lost some steam for the franchise but still found enough to finish it properly. It was more money concerns that led to spin off films instead of shooting an X4.

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X-Men was a perfect example at adapting the fantastical comic book adventures of the X-Men into a real life setting without compromising too much, making their uniforms all leather black made more sense than colorful vibrant colored spandex and the performances were done in serious manner.

X-Men 2 was a perfect sequel expanding on the plotlines from the first movie into a more satisfying action pic without shoving every new mutant on screen.

X-Men 3 while still good shouldn't have killed off 3 of the major characters, the story felt rushed with too many characters not getting enough screen time coupled with a shorter runtime for what was intended as a grand epic finale didn't really feel satisfying but having Magneto retain a hint of his powers at the end was a clever idea, too bad further sequels will never expound on that.

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Think about it. It is Scott's girlfriend (wife?) that has turned against them. X3 should have focused heavily on Scott.

That's what I assumed would happen.

Then the X3 script review was released on the net and I read that Scott gets killed 5 minutes after showing up. I was like "what."

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Cyclops is the best superhero in the world. He is, as far as I'm concerned, the Batman. He's been in intensive training since his early teenage years to lead the first-ever mutant rescue and security team. This is a guy who gets up every morning asking himself how he can be better.

Mind you, i didnt like Bryan Singers treatment for x3 so if he had stayed im wondering if x3 would of been any better. Mind you i dont really blame bret ratner... this movie was almost made without a director so everything was thought off before bret came to the movie.

To me, this is what should of happend...
> The only main cast members should of been, Professor X, Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Iceman, Rogue, Pyro, Magneto & Mystique...
"Non of the above should of died in the movie"
> The only new characters to the mix should of been Beast, Gambit, Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost & Avalanche... and they should of had roles only just larger than a cameo with exception to Sebastian Shaw who would serve as the main protagonist.

The Cure - storyline should not of been used, it is a good story but merging it with the phoenix saga was a mistake.

The story should of just focused on the growing war between humans and mutants, fuled by those who would profit and gain from such war.

The story should of been as follows...

After the collapse of the alkali lake, Shaw industries has begun work to fix the structure. were upon they find Jean Grey... alive. Shaw industries is an umbrella corporation that secretely funded strykers work. However Shaw industries is a mutant based organisation who benifits from the conflict of the war between humans and mutants. Anyway one of there members Emma Frost discovers the potential Jean Grey has and Shaw Industries plans to use this to fule the war between humans and mutants for there own profit. Elsewhere at the xavier instatue, Beast has returned from his research facility to help teach at the school and lend a hand with the x-men team as there now limited in numbers. cyclops is a broken man unable to lead the team, he leaves. Leaving Storm to lead the team which now consists of Iceman and Rogue. Rogue has now become more confident with her powers and wolverine takes them on a danger room session where this is shown, however we also see Iceman and Rogue drift apart. Iceman becomes obessed with finding Pyro and facing him in confrontation, Iceman is angry he left to join Magneto, it is this that is why Rogue feels they are drifting apart. The school is continuing on when Jean awakes at the Hellfire Club. Professor Xavier senses her, the x-men join to go find her, however cyclops who had left but had a psychic link to jean sensed she was alive and goes solo to find her. Elsewhere - Magneto is in hiding, with Mystique and Pyro plotting there next move. We learn of two new mutants that has joined his brotherhood, Avalanche and Gambit - Avalanche just loves distruction where as Magneto found a use in a thief to steal plans on anything the humans were upto.

The whole story will centre on Sebastian Shaw who uses the Phoenix to cause a threat that the humans would try to retaliate - maybe sentinals... but not giant robots. Which are being manufactured by Shaw Industries making them alot of money. As the x-men try to stop Phoenix and failing, Cyclops is the only one that is able to break Jean from the Phoenix persona. Re-initating him as the leader of the x-men. However the damage is too late as she has sparked a war with Magneto and his brotherhood. you still get the iceman vs pyro fight. However Gambit plays a sort of big role as he wasnt entirely sure about magnetos plan and when the war starts and falling for Rogue he joins to help the x-men. As sentinals are deployed and Cyclops and Jean renew there faith in each other, Jean becomes the phoenix again but a good phoenix and destroys all the sentinals in a scene similar to how jean atomized everythin in alcatraz in x3 - she also kills the hellfire club after exposing them behind the war to the world.

after that a new peace treaty is signed which is all following xaviers dream. Magneto has a renewed faith in humanity losing his hatrid and finally bringing xavier and magneto to being friends again. the brotherhood are disbanded but the conflict between pyro and iceman still continues... to which Iceman leaves the school to join X-Factor - which is established by the goverment.

This all has set up for the 4th movie where the legacy virus would bring back Magneto's hatrid for humanity. and also introduce Sinister

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To me, this is what should of happend...
> The only main cast members should of been, Professor X, Cyclops, Storm, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Iceman, Rogue, Pyro, Magneto & Mystique...
"Non of the above should of died in the movie"
> The only new characters to the mix should of been Beast, Gambit, Sebastian Shaw, Emma Frost & Avalanche... and they should of had roles only just larger than a cameo with exception to Sebastian Shaw who would serve as the main protagonist.

I thought Xavier's death was done well and was one of the highlights of the film for me. The X-Men had the funeral and realised Jean had reached the point of no return.

Cyclops should not have been killed or if he did have to be killed, kill him at the end as a result of killing Phoenix.

If the new characters roles are only just larger than a cameo, why bother having them in the first place unless they serve a purpose in the story that no other existing character could serve?

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The Cure - storyline should not of been used, it is a good story but merging it with the phoenix saga was a mistake.

I agree and disagree. For the length of movie we got, they should of definitely done one storyline or the other rather than merging the two. It wasn't really a merged storyline either. It was two plotlines running side by side that occasionally crossed over every now and then. Neither story got the time it really deserved. Had the film been longer, and the plotlines better merged, I reckon it would have been an overall better film. I enjoyed the film for what it is, it just feels rushed though.

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after that a new peace treaty is signed which is all following xaviers dream. Magneto has a renewed faith in humanity losing his hatrid and finally bringing xavier and magneto to being friends again. the brotherhood are disbanded but the conflict between pyro and iceman still continues... to which Iceman leaves the school to join X-Factor - which is established by the goverment.

This all has set up for the 4th movie where the legacy virus would bring back Magneto's hatrid for humanity. and also introduce Sinister

I'm not too keen on the idea of Magneto losing his hatred then getting it back for the next movie.
Magneto: I hate humans.......no I don't.........yes I do.

I like the idea of a mutant taskforce established by the government, however, I wouldn't necessarily call it X-Factor.

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Nothing was wrong with them. I think they turned out better than I would have thought.

Only thing is your average person don't kno who the **** difference is from Banshee or Beast. And you gotta sell happy meals and bedsheets, and apise all of us. The strength of X2 anchors the trilogy and that movie alone could stand w/ even weaker accompaning films. 1A is Superman trilogy, 1B is the X-men

The cure storyline- Rogue really should have been centre stage to deal with this. Because the storyline wasn't given the focus it deserves, it felt like Rogue's decision to take the cure was rushed. Rogue took the cure because she was jealous of Iceman getting touchy feely with Kitty which is basically the wrong way to go about it. I don't actually mind Rogue taking the cure if she had properly thought about it and agonised over the decision. There are valid reasons why she shouldn’t have taken the cure; she’s changing who she is for someone else etc. However, there are valid reasons for why she should have taken the cure:

She wouldn’t be able to have kids with her powers- nobody would be able to touch her long enough to do the deed. You could argue that she could get artificially inseminated but then comes the question, would the baby survive in her womb as it has some of her DNA and could be immune to her power or would her powers kill it? It’s uncertain.

She wouldn’t be able to have a proper relationship with someone as there would not be that physical closeness that a relationship requires. She could end up dying alone.etc.

Overall I do enjoy the trilogy, there are a couple of scenes that annoy me.

In X3, Rogue says to Wolverine “I want to be able to touch people. A hug, a handshake, a kiss.” Yet in X2 and the alternate X3 ending, she hugs Bobby quite happily with her powers. Therefore her powers don’t stop her from hugging anyone so long as she doesn’t touch their skin.

Another scene that bothers me in X2, is that when they’ve run out of Stryker’s place to find the helicopter gone, they just stand there. They don’t think to run through the trees on the right to the X-Jet. If they did, Rogue wouldn’t have had to crash land the jet and the engines would have worked and Jean would have lived. Had the helicopter been there would they have gone and left Rogue and Iceman? Rogue and Iceman didn’t know the dam had ruptured, yet the X-Men made no effort to warn them.

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lack of Cyclops and the need for other lead villains like sinister and apocalypse and the sentinels are what i didn't like about the films. oh, and for 3 i also didn't like that they tried to jumble a phoenix story and a cure story in one. both suffered greatly, as there wasn't enough time to explore how each character felt about whether or not they should be cured. and the changed phoenix into a split personality rather than explain an origin. I also didn't like the way they set up angel to be important only to do nothing with him at all. and didn't like the way the writers thought it would be cool to kill of all the good guys and cure all the bad guys, only to reveal that they might get their powers back. it felt almost like the bad guys one and the good guys lost.

no in general the comics are not the movies and ther movies are not the comics but...

All mutant leaders have had conflicting ideology towards how they believe mutants should be in the world.

Xavier believed in a co-existant world where humans and mutants worked together. However Xaviers dream was lacking both human and mutants nature of fear and envy to which you will not rid each of either because its both two natural elements. Which is why Xaviers dream will never come true.

Magneto start into humanity he thought he was no more than human until his powers kicked in around the time he saw his parents get killed through predujice. But after few soul searching adventures he met Xavier and started to sway more towards Xaviers dream. But even magneto could find the flaws of envy and fear which proved to be his downful as he knew neither would be equel and thus the other would try to imprision the other. So Magneto is standing on the side of all mutants but over the years and meeting several different humans and mutants his ideas have changed so hes not that far from xaviers dream but he will not stand for the envy and fear.

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Cyclops I think is a general consensus. The leader of the X-men barely made it into the last two films. He could have done so much more and Jean and Wolverine relationship was so mishandled. Jean should not have been that close......but hey I'm an Emma Scott supporter.

I gotta disagree about the villains. The movies can't have every bad guy in there and for the story Magneto and Stryker worked. Now a new series would need to look elsewhere but the trilogies weren't worse for not having other bad guys.

Honestly the biggest issue was the team dynamic and making Wolverine the star. I never felt that the X-men were a team. I never felt that these people would die for each other. We know a lot more about wolverine then anyone else. Honestly do we even know where Storm comes from? In the comics we know she is from africa and in a cut in in origins she is from africa. But in the film versions we only know her name and powers.

X-Men 2 was a horrid sequel expanding on and in fact almost being a remake of the plotlines - only in reverse - from the first movie into a more muddled and incomprehensible action pic (yeah magneto happened to be standing there to save the x-jet, convenient, the entire put the knives down scene etc etc) without shoving every new mutant on screen.

I will have to agree on Cyclops. I didn't think I was much of a fan, but he was so badly handled that I feel really defensive toward the character.

Things didn't lose their way for me (and probably many others) until 3. I don't actually think it was that bad a story, but the group is completely dismantled by the end mostly because of actor's schedules. Cyclops should have had a much larger role in that chapter, and I can only hope that if a 4th comes to be, his death is retconned and he's given the spotlight finally.

1. Singer doesn't seem to know how to do the female characters well. Jean Grey was the most realized character, but that had mainly to do with the Logan/Scott/Jean triangle. I liked Mystique as well, but her lizard look was unnecessary. Rogue should have been Shadowcat or Jubilee-there was no need to use her at all other than they need her power set to power that machine. You have two great characters who were basically neutered, though Storm became a bit more important in 2 and 3, but not being African??? I found that rather insulting. And Rogue squeeling in the X jet towards the end of 2? Please tell me I was not the only one who found that one of the most cringeworthy scenes in the series! Though I have to say one of the only good things in X3 was Shadowcat.

2. Agreed about Cyclops

3. Agreed about this not having that "team" feeling as it should have

4. I don't mind Wolverine being such a central character in the first film. We need a character to introduce us to the X world, and I felt Wolverine was a good choice. But he should have not been such a central character in the following films.

5. They never should have put the Gifted and Phoenix storylines together-they have nothing to do with each other and it made for a mess onscreen. (Which is a shame. Both are really good and bring up really good topics/themes)

6. Either lengthen the running time of the film so that characters have time to breathe, or limit the number of characters. By the middle of X2 it became a game of "spot the mutant!"

Before Bryan Singer moved to Superman Returns, he planed to shot X-Men 3 and 4 Back to Back, the 3rd would have the dark phoenix saga and the 4th would have the final battle, but then came a bad director who instead of making 2 x-men movies with probably 2 hours each decided instead to make only one movie with 100 minutes, and with 7 story arcs, only because he thinks a trilogy is the best way to end something, that´s just stupid, i like trilogies but deciding every time to make a trilogy is just idiot. The story would be bether explored with 4 movies, it would be a tetraquel, what´s the problem of people and trilogies? You don´t have to make a trilogy of everithing you find, if someone before you decided that it should be 2 movies back to back, you should use that idea and not make one single movie that has only 100 minutes, in the truth because brian synger left after the 2nd x-men, instead of making a 4 hours epic, it was decided to make a 100 minuted trash.
I don´t like the fact of x-men being a trilogy, i still think that it is not complete, and it´s not because of magnetos powers returning, xavier´s ming surviving and not because sabretooth from X-origins: wolverine still remembering his past with wolverine, no, it is because for me there is a missing piece in the story, X-3 and XO-Wolverine are the reason why x-men movie are being destroied, annd i hope First class is a good prequel that can continue the story of the mutants of the terrible wolverine movie, and i hope that wolverine 2 can tell us how sabretooth became dumb, and that bryan singer can give us an X-Men 4

My view on the Cyclops thing is this: He got the short end of the stick through the whole trilogy and being killed off was a crappy send-off, but it wasn't the original plan - it's just the option that Bryan Singer and James Marsden's departures left. The reason Rogue is AWOL throughout the entire movie and why Mystique is cured in her third scene is because the movie was made so quickly that not all of the actors could commit to the full shoot schedule, so we got what we got. But with that in mind, I do think that Scott got a send-off that did his character justice. He died for the woman he loved, which is what he was willing to do in X2, so he at least died knowing that he hadn't completely failed Jean by not being able to save her - he did probably realize that perhaps he had bad taste in women by that point, though.

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In X3, Rogue says to Wolverine “I want to be able to touch people. A hug, a handshake, a kiss.” Yet in X2 and the alternate X3 ending, she hugs Bobby quite happily with her powers. Therefore her powers don’t stop her from hugging anyone so long as she doesn’t touch their skin.

I take the Rogue scene as her stating that things Logan may take for granted are things she has to consider everyday. She needed to be covered up at all times just so nobody accidentally gets hurt because of her. So the hug line maybe wasn't a literal concern of hers, but it sounded much better than her saying to her father figure in the movie "I just wanna kiss and screw mah boyfriend!!!" - it was a much more poetic way to state her problems.

I take the Rogue scene as her stating that things Logan may take for granted are things she has to consider everyday. She needed to be covered up at all times just so nobody accidentally gets hurt because of her. So the hug line maybe wasn't a literal concern of hers, but it sounded much better than her saying to her father figure in the movie "I just wanna kiss and screw mah boyfriend!!!" - it was a much more poetic way to state her problems.

Indeed.

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